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Profits Increase With Uniform Pricing <ul><li>Further Opportunities Due To </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Optimization of Plant/Warehouse Locations </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Avoidance of Product Diversion to Other Channels/Customers </li></ul></ul>

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Case Study III: Home Banking Services <ul><li>Banks Have The Opportunity Of A New Distribution Channel </li></ul>

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Opportunity of New Distribution Channels <ul><li>Reduces Bank Long Term Cost </li></ul><ul><li>Increases Service Level To Some Segments and Allows New Products That This Segment Favors </li></ul><ul><li>Threat Potential Entry By E-Banks Sidestepping Traditional Retail Banking </li></ul>

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Creation of Pricing and Segmentation Strategies For Home Banking Is A Key Issue <ul><li>This Is Also A Key Issue For Many Firms Selling Products Into Supply Chains </li></ul><ul><li>Especially Supply Chains That The Firm Does Not Have Control Over </li></ul>

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Profit Maximization and Market Entry <ul><li>Banks Decide on Branch Locations </li></ul><ul><li>Banks Decide Whether to Offer Branch and Electronic Services, and Their Prices </li></ul><ul><li>Bank’s Objective Is To Maximize Profit </li></ul><ul><li>There Will Be Entry and Expansion Into The Market So Long As Profit Opportunity Exists </li></ul>

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We Seek To Find The Equilibrium Number and Type of Banks Assuming: <ul><li>Profit Maximizing Behavior </li></ul><ul><li>Incentive Compatibility and Individual Rationality of Customers </li></ul><ul><li>Free Entry </li></ul>

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Mixed Delivery System Blocks Entry <ul><li>A Prediction of the Model Is That E-Banks Will Not Succeed </li></ul>

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Avenues For Further Research <ul><li>Explore the Impact of Partition of Decisions on Inventory/Capacity /Stocking Locations on Chain Performance </li></ul><ul><li>Empirical Research on Use of Uniform Pricing </li></ul><ul><li>Further Exploration of Channel Pricing Models Considering IR/IC </li></ul>